Mr. Harkin will attend this weekend's events at the elder Bush's library at Texas A&M University, organized by Frederick D. McClure, chief executive of the library foundation.
Roly Keating, chief executive of the library, warmly welcomed the honour for the UK's largest, most expensive, and arguably most controversial public building of the 20th century.
The award of $100,000 is "to acknowledge the highest levels of scholarship and writing in a field that often does not gain appropriate recognition," according to James N. Pritzker, founder and chief executive of the library.
Paul LeClerc, the chief executive of the library, said it would spend $10 million in June through October to improve its Web site (http://digital.nypl.org) with a pictorial archive having more than 500,000 images.
Nancy Black is the executive director of library services at Nipissing University, Ontario, Canada.
Ann J. Wolpert, executive director of library and information services at the Harvard Business School since 1993, has been named director of the MIT Libraries.
LIBRARY LION -- The appointment of David S. Ferriero as Andrew W. Mellon director and chief executive of the research libraries at the New York Public Library is being announced today by Samuel C. Butler, the library chairman, and Paul LeClerc, its president.
FOOTNOTES The appointment of Susan Kent as director and chief executive of the Branch Libraries at the New York Public Library was announced yesterday by Samuel C. Butler, the library chairman, and Paul LeClerc, the president.
Nick Poole, chief executive of Cilip, said libraries "have been seen as an easy target" but that cuts to frontline services are both misguided and short-sighted.
"A public library based in the community has a wonderful opportunity in the future," said Thomas W. Galante, president and chief executive of the 62-library Queens system, which is independent of the Brooklyn Public Library and the New York Public Library.
